Individual values predict desiring more economic inequality: The moderator role of social mobility
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Sánchez Rodríguez, Ángel; García Sánchez, Efraín; Willis Sánchez, Guillermo Byrd; Rodríguez Bailón, Rosa MaríaEditorial
John Wiley & Sons
Materia
Economic inequality Self-enhancement values Self-transcendence values
Fecha
2024-01-31Referencia bibliográfica
Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., García-Sánchez, E., Willis, G.B. and Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2024), Individual values predict desiring more economic inequality: The moderator role of social mobility. Int J Psychol. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13114
Patrocinador
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, PID2019.105643GB.I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Resumen
Attitudes towards economic inequality are crucial to uphold structural economic inequality in democratic societies. Previous research has shown that socioeconomic status, political ideology, and the objective level of economic inequality associated with individuals' attitudes towards economic inequality. However, some have suggested that people are aware of the individual and social features that are more functional according to the level of economic inequality. Therefore, individual predispositions such as cultural values could also predict these attitudes. In the current research, we expand previous results testing whether cultural variables at the individual level predict attitudes towards economic inequality. After analysing survey data including samples from 52 countries (N = 89,565), we found that self-enhancement values predict positively, and self-transcendence negatively, attitudes towards economic inequality as the ideal economic inequality measures. This result remained significant even after controlling by socioeconomic status, political ideology, and objective economic inequality. However, this effect is only true in high and middle social mobility countries, but not in countries with low social mobility. The present research highlights how cultural values and country social mobility are crucial factors to addressing attitudes towards economic inequality.